Celebrating Apple’s 50th: Bitrig Now Builds Mac Apps

At Bitrig, we’re unapologetically Apple enthusiasts.

For a decade, I watched every Apple keynote. My first job was at an Apple Store. I made my first home movies in iMovie. I fell in love with music thanks to iTunes. I learned to code on my MacBook Pro.

To me, Apple stands for simplicity, innovation, great design, and impressive engineering. It’s surprise and delight. It’s the intersection of technology and the liberal arts. It’s thinking different.

Bitrig is the only vibe coding app purpose-built for Apple platforms. For people like me. For people like you.

We asked ourselves: what could we do to commemorate Apple’s 50th anniversary? What could we build to celebrate Apple’s future?

Since we launched last summer, Bitrig has been focused on building iPhone apps. Today, that changes.

Over the last three months we’ve rebuilt core parts of Bitrig’s infrastructure. The Mac app and Bitrig Agent made Bitrig capable of building increasingly complex iPhone apps. But they were also laying the groundwork for something more.

We’re excited to share the first result of that work:

Bitrig can now build native Swift Mac apps.

There’s no Apple product with a more storied past or a brighter future than the Mac. And now, with Bitrig, you can build for it directly.

Your Mac app gets access to the complete macOS SDK. It’s compiled with the full Xcode toolchain. And with Bitrig Agent, you’re using the same professional-grade macOS development stack we use to build Bitrig itself.

Go ahead: build yourself a Mac-assed Mac app. Add multiple windows, great keyboard shortcuts, and a menu bar extra.

One more thing… to celebrate Apple’s 50th anniversary, we’re doubling the free tier for a limited time.

So if it’s been a little while since you last opened Bitrig, today is a great day to come back and build something great.